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Pac-12 player group threatens to opt out, makes list of demands on injustice, safety

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  • HoustonHusky
    HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,000
    Swaye said:

    Just get rid of CFB. My care meter is pegged on low. Perhaps the kids shouldn't have picked this moment in history to make a huge list of demands. Strike while the iron is hot and all but after 40 M out of work, truncated season, and riots everywhere, I'm not sure that many people honestly give a fuck anymore. I know I don't. Could care less if UW ever plays a football game again. If they do, with student athletes, I might watch. If they do it with revenue sharing employees, I won't. Simple.

    If the kids really want all this, and I support their right to go for it, then just form the D league now and get to it. Maybe it will work like gangbusters for them. I won't watch so I don't care, but maybe others do care?

    Best part of the collapse of college football is that Oregon never won a NC before they went semi-pro. Suck it Ducks!

    POTY, and it’s been quite a year...
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  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,731 Founders Club
    The further away in age of the players I become the less I seem to care.

    You run the gauntlet from idolizing Kaufman and Bailey as a child to respecting Locker as a peer to appreciating the next wave of OKGs bringing the program back, but all this woke shit isn't for me.

    Being a D1 athlete at a power5 is akin to being a God for 4 years. All the gear, all the food, travel, opportunities, paid for school, notoriety, girls, tutors, experience, etc.


    Blow it up, saves me money.

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  • trublue
    trublue Member Posts: 3,042
    ntxduck said:

    whatshouldicareabout said:

    HuskyJW said:

    ntxduck said:

    whatshouldicareabout said:

    Seems none of them are familiar with Title IX

    Been saying for years that’s the most straightforward solution. Axe title 9, turn the non rev sports into club sports, provide a standard base salary to p5 football and basketball players with that pot.
    I don’t think people know what Titke IX is.

    Do people really think it’s is about scholarships? There is a lot more to it. They aren’t going to reduce women’s participation because Ty Jones wants to be paid money.
    The irony of the situation is that, for the purpose of reducing discrimination in college athletics, they want to repel the very law that outlaws discrimination in federally funded programs.
    Don’t think it’s that ironic. Like a lot of legislation, it was passed with good intentions at a time when legislation was needed. As times have changed, the regulation has become more and more outdated.
    It is a law (1972).

    I seriously doubt that the women of the United States would agree with your suggestion.

    You know, fairness, equality, etc.

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  • trublue
    trublue Member Posts: 3,042
    ntxduck said:

    whatshouldicareabout said:

    Seems none of them are familiar with Title IX

    Been saying for years that’s the most straightforward solution. Axe title 9, turn the non rev sports into club sports, provide a standard base salary to p5 football and basketball players with that pot.
    Axing Title IX is NOT an option.

    I’ve got a better solution. Let the NFL and NBA fund their own minor league systems, instead of the NCAA.

    Let the players negotiate with the NFL and NBA.

    The leagues are all in on BLM and make tons of money. Seems like a very logical solution.

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  • trublue
    trublue Member Posts: 3,042
    ntxduck said:

    whatshouldicareabout said:

    HuskyJW said:

    ntxduck said:

    whatshouldicareabout said:

    Seems none of them are familiar with Title IX

    Been saying for years that’s the most straightforward solution. Axe title 9, turn the non rev sports into club sports, provide a standard base salary to p5 football and basketball players with that pot.
    I don’t think people know what Titke IX is.

    Do people really think it’s is about scholarships? There is a lot more to it. They aren’t going to reduce women’s participation because Ty Jones wants to be paid money.
    The irony of the situation is that, for the purpose of reducing discrimination in college athletics, they want to repel the very law that outlaws discrimination in federally funded programs.
    Don’t think it’s that ironic. Like a lot of legislation, it was passed with good intentions at a time when legislation was needed. As times have changed, the regulation has become more and more outdated.
    It’s not a “regulation” . . . It’s a law.
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  • HuskyJW
    HuskyJW Member Posts: 15,316
    There are very few football players that even earn their scholarship let alone extra money
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    HuskyJW said:

    There are very few football players that even earn their scholarship let alone extra money

    Good point
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,342 Founders Club
    Doogles said:

    The further away in age of the players I become the less I seem to care.

    You run the gauntlet from idolizing Kaufman and Bailey as a child to respecting Locker as a peer to appreciating the next wave of OKGs bringing the program back, but all this woke shit isn't for me.

    Being a D1 athlete at a power5 is akin to being a God for 4 years. All the gear, all the food, travel, opportunities, paid for school, notoriety, girls, tutors, experience, etc.


    Blow it up, saves me money.

    When the season gets cancelled I was planning to just roll my already bought season tickets into 2021. Now I think I would like a full refund out of spite.
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